It's 2009 and ignorance is at an all time high...

So, it's 2009 and America is still a young nation that has supposedly
come a long way from slavery on plantations, lynchings, and
segregation....

MLK had his dream, Abe Lincoln made his abolishment and more and more
people are learning to accept and even take an INTEREST in becoming a
part of and performing the acts of different cultures.

Although, growing up and living in New York would make me much more
adept to the whole "melting pot" concept, it still amazes me how much
IGNORANCE is still prevalent on these streets..... it's thick like a
dense fog and truly sickening.

Now, I know when friends are being facetious with each other we tend to
use the N word, the S word and the C word and most people don't take
offense because 1) it's coming from your friend who you know isn't
racist and 2) the context in which the word is used is usually funny or
something you can all relate to....

Even among friends, however, I don't really agree with perpetuating the
use of such words since the places from which they originated are so
dark and dismal and speak of an earlier time when it was okay to hate
each other for being different. So... don't get me wrong, I don't
promote the use of such offensive racial slurs.

THE LINE IS REALLY CROSSED when someone you barely know or a total
stranger uses the word to purposely offend you. I don't care if you're
trying to joke around, words like these are NOT funny and NO YOU'RE NOT
CUTE when you use them against people.

I was inspired to write this by a recent conversation with one such ignorant individual... see excerpt below

PERSON X: how duz stuff being funny 2 me count as ignorant?
PERSON X: I guess sum1 else is da ignorant 1
ME: you calling me a chink is 1) ignorant and 2) not funny
PERSON X: nope its 1)funyy and 2)funny


The above is only an excerpt and prior to that we were talking about
innocent things and I stated my opinion about something to which PERSON
X said "yeah you would think that you chink" and I said that it wasn't
even funny and that was pretty ignorant to say.

This isnt the first time PERSON X has referred to me as such AND it
isn't the first time that I've said how i felt about being referred to
as such. Nevertheless PERSON X insists on using the word.



WILL THE IGNORANCE AND RACIAL SLURS EVER STOP???? Will people stop
perpetuating the evils made popular by our ancestors who were AFRAID of
anything different? Will people stop spewing things from their mouths
borne out of ignorance and fear of the unknown?

This is America right? Will the people who CLAIM to strive on
individuality, creativity and the fact that we should CELEBRATE our
differences finally step up to the plate and stop the evil talk HERE
AND NOW?????

If not now, then when?????????????????

PS Person X, while I think you are truly crossing the line and ignorant
for thinking that youre being cute or funny, i DO thank you for
inspiring me to write this blog.